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SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea’s double Olympic short track gold medallist Shim Suk-hee has accused her former coach — already convicted and jailed for repeatedly beating her over many years — of sexual assault, her lawyer said Wednesday. Shim filed her complaint against Cho Jae-beom to police last month, on the same day she testified at his appeal against a 10-month jail sentence for physically assaulting her. Aged 21, the elite athlete […]
(Eagle News) — Cardinal George Pell of Australia who was a member of the Catholic Church’s Pope Francis’ circle of cardinal advisers until recently, had been found guilty of charges related to sexual abuse by an Australian court, according to various media reports that emerged despite a gag order. According to Washington Post and the Catholic News Agency, news about Pell’s conviction on Tuesday, December 11, for sexual offenses came out despite a news […]
A support organization for Catholic Church’s sex abuse victims in Ireland said that as many as one in four adults in the country had experienced some sort of sexual abuse, as a campaign called “Say Nope to the Pope” is planned to hold a protest event as Catholic Pope Francis visits Ireland on Saturday. Executive Director Maeve Lewis of the “One in Four” abuse survivors’ support group said that the upcoming papal visit in Ireland […]
by Catherine Marciano Agence France Presse VATICAN CITY (AFP) — With the Catholic Church rocked by a devastating US report into child sex abuse, Catholic Church’s Pope Francis has this week sharpened his criticism on the explosive issue — but he remains under pressure to enact far-reaching changes. The US grand jury report accused more than 300 “predator” priests in the state of Pennsylvania of abusing more than 1,000 children over seven decades, sparking […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte recalled the sexual harassment he suffered from an American Jesuit Catholic priest while he was still studying at the Ateneo de Davao in the 1950s. Duterte recalled that the priest Mark Falvey was teaching for four years during his high school in Ateneo and that almost all of them had been sexually assaulted by the priest. “Kaming lahat, nung nag-aral kami sa Ateneo, one — two years, ‘yung […]
by Jennie Matthew Agence France Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — More than 300 “predator” priests in Pennsylvania are accused of abusing over 1,000 children across seven decades, a grand jury said Tuesday in a devastating report that decried a systematic cover-up by the Catholic Church. It is thought to be the single most comprehensive report to date into abuse in the US church, since The Boston Globe first exposed pedophile priests in […]
by Martin PARRY Agence France Presse SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — A former Australian archbishop convicted of concealing abuse by a notorious paedophile priest in the 1970s was confronted by enraged victims outside a courthouse Tuesday after a judge spared him jail and ordered he serve his sentence at home. Philip Wilson became one of the highest-ranked church officials convicted of covering up child sex abuse when he was found guilty in May of concealing crimes […]
SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) — Police on Wednesday seized church files in raids in Santiago and Rancagua, as the Catholic Church scrambled to try to put a better face on a sex abuse scandal that has rocked Chile. The surprise operations came as Maltese archbishop Charles Scicluna and fellow papal envoy Jordi Bertomeu are visiting for a second time to take witness statements from victims of sexual abuse in the church and provide instruction to […]
by Daniel De Carteret Agence France Presse MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP) — The Vatican’s finance chief Cardinal George Pell Tuesday became the highest-ranked Catholic to be sent for trial over historic sex offences, as the elderly priest vowed to fight the charges. The 76-year-old was impassive throughout the hearing in the Australian city of Melbourne that ordered him to face a jury on “multiple” charges, although half of the allegations against him — including some […]
MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP) — Prosecutors Friday withdrew one of multiple historical sexual offence charges against Vatican finance chief Cardinal George Pell ahead of his committal hearing next week. The 76-year-old, a top adviser to Pope Francis, has taken leave to fight the allegations which relate to incidents that allegedly occurred long ago. The exact details and nature of the accusations have not been made public, other than they involve “multiple complainants”. A preliminary hearing […]
https://youtu.be/CjlOe9iMy24 In the run-up to the 2018 Oscars, a British artist briefly puts on display a statue of Harvey Weinstein, in a bathrobe on a sofa, on Hollywood Boulevard. The artist wants to denounce the culture of silence that allowed the abuse to go on for so long. “This year we’ve got Harvey Weinstein clutching an Oscar in his hands, dressed in a bathrobe, which sadly so many people had to experience,” said the artist […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea’s Catholic hierarchy on Tuesday said it was “devastated” by allegations that a priest had tried to rape a woman, after she came forward to join the country’s burgeoning #MeToo movement. The Catholic Church has been rocked around the globe by years of damaging clerical sex abuse cases as well as cover-ups by senior church officials who often ignored victims and protected predators. Until now the church in […]
